In collaboration IT, interoperability usually happens when competitors work together. When two competing systems work together, without regard to brand name, the end user’s outcome then becomes the same. This is crucial for collaboration to enable, well, genuine collaboration. Lack of interoperability in collaborative businesses creates communication silos, friction, and often leads to what we’ve ...

Are you hosting meetings in Slack or Microsoft Teams? Maybe you’re hosting meetings in Slack and Microsoft Teams. Regardless of your app of choice, I bet this scenario sounds familiar… You and your direct report communicate back and forth all week, bouncing between Slack and Microsoft Teams. You discuss ongoing projects, mention any roadblocks, maybe ...

Struggling to get your Slack and Webex Teams users in sync? If you’ve got users on both Slack and Cisco Webex Teams, then you could be facing some serious silos in your workplace communication. Luckily, we’re here to help. Here’s how you can sync Slack channels with Webex Teams spaces and remove the gaps in ...

Microsoft Teams guest access is the most read post on the Microsoft tech community forum. It has 78k views but we don’t seem to be much closer to a resolution. There is no doubt that Microsoft Teams is one of the market-leading tools, with a whole host of functionality. In fact, Teams now has 13m ...

Let’s assume that you already know that Slack has features to wow you. You did know that, right? Good. This will make a whole lot more sense now we’ve established that. Imagine going one step further and making your everyday apps talk to each other. How easy would it be to collaborate if Slack was ...

Microsoft today confirmed the Skype for Business Online end of life date as July 31, 2021. In this post, we shed some light on the steps Microsoft is taking and have sourced some helpful links to help plan your migration. Common FAQs include: Our recently published Workplace Messaging Report should also help your journey from ...

The comparison of Microsoft Teams vs Skype for Business is an inadequate one. Both tools have changed the way we communicate. Both tools offer excellent user interfaces and a fantastic collaboration experience. However, they are incredibly different ways of working. This post walks through key differences in technology, but also in processes and the way ...

Looking for Skype for Business alternatives? We hear you. As Skype for Business Online goes end of life on 31st July 2021, and Teams becomes the focal point of Microsoft’s collaboration offering, it’s the perfect time to shop around. We’ve gone out to market and reviewed 20 alternatives to Skype for Business. 1 – Microsoft ...